Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples, for according to the laws of heredity two and two can often make five. The subject of race sounds much more sensible treated biologically rather than politically or socially...
Spreading of these stories, plus the revival of the old one about Miss Negri's Jewish blood, caused Handsome Adolf to burst into tears. Sobbed he: "The slanderers! The slanderers!" Later he was reported to have sent secret agents to Poland to prove once and for all Pola Negri's Aryan ancestry...
...Behanan says he first practiced posterior stretching. Sitting with his legs stretched out he hooked his forefingers over his big toes and touched his knees with his head. This "brings a rich supply of blood to the pelvic organs and tones up the nerves arising from the lower part of the spine...
...painter, learned to satisfy his aspirations by making his own fashion drawings, as some of the great Paris couturiers do. Sons and grandsons of Viennese hofschneider (court tailors), the current Scheiners expanded their Vienna business, opened branches in Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp. It is their boast that many a London blood travels all the way to Antwerp to have his trousers fitted by either Benno, Leo, Marco or Emil. Because some U. S. tycoons do likewise the Scheiners decided to open a fourth branch in Manhattan...
Last night's abortive riot of the Freshmen in the Yard was a completely dismal failure, and seems to be a good example of the degeneracy which has set in among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...